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True to Life: Twenty-Five Years of Conversations with David Hockney
Lawrence Weschler
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Paperback. Chronicles David Hockney's protean production and speculations, including his scenic designs for opera, his homemade xerographic prints, his exploration of physics in relation to Chinese landscape painting, his investigations into optical devices, his taking up of watercolor - and then his return to oil painting, around 2005. Num Pages: 272 pages, 100 b/w illustrations, 60 color photographs. BIC Classification: ACXJ; AFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 205 x 156 x 21. Weight in Grams: 576. Twenty-Five Years of Conversations with David Hockney. 272 pages, illustrations. Chronicles David Hockney's protean production and speculations, including his scenic designs for opera, his homemade xerographic prints, his exploration of physics in relation to Chinese landscape painting, his investigations into optical devices, his taking up of watercolor - and then his return to oil painting, around 2005. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: ACXJ; AFC. Dimension: 205 x 156 x 21. Weight: 576.
Soon after the book's publication in 1982, artist David Hockney read Lawrence Weschler's Seeing Is Forgetting the Name of the Thing One Sees: A Life of Contemporary Artist Robert Irwin and invited Weschler to his studio to discuss it, initiating a series of engrossing dialogs, gathered here for the first time. Weschler chronicles Hockney's protean production and speculations, including his scenic designs for opera, his homemade xerographic prints, his exploration of physics in relation to Chinese landscape painting, his investigations into optical devices, his taking up of watercolor - and then his spectacular return to oil painting, around ... Read more
Soon after the book's publication in 1982, artist David Hockney read Lawrence Weschler's Seeing Is Forgetting the Name of the Thing One Sees: A Life of Contemporary Artist Robert Irwin and invited Weschler to his studio to discuss it, initiating a series of engrossing dialogs, gathered here for the first time. Weschler chronicles Hockney's protean production and speculations, including his scenic designs for opera, his homemade xerographic prints, his exploration of physics in relation to Chinese landscape painting, his investigations into optical devices, his taking up of watercolor - and then his spectacular return to oil painting, around ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
University of California Press
Number of pages
272
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Condition
New
Weight
576g
Number of Pages
272
Place of Publication
Berkerley, United States
ISBN
9780520258792
SKU
V9780520258792
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About Lawrence Weschler
Lawrence Weschler, a staff writer for twenty years at the New Yorker, is the Director of the New York Institute of the Humanities at New York University and Artistic Director of the Chicago Humanities Festival.
Reviews for True to Life: Twenty-Five Years of Conversations with David Hockney
Aside from being a terrific writer, Weschler is clearly a great listener and interviewer.
Robert L. Pincus San Diego Union-Tribune Weschler rewards his readers with lengthy quotes, an overwhelming wealth of knowledge and a lively narrative style. (Starred Review) Publishers Weekly 'Seeing Is Forgetting' and 'True to Life' are not only about the artists talking ... Read more
Robert L. Pincus San Diego Union-Tribune Weschler rewards his readers with lengthy quotes, an overwhelming wealth of knowledge and a lively narrative style. (Starred Review) Publishers Weekly 'Seeing Is Forgetting' and 'True to Life' are not only about the artists talking ... Read more